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VIAIAA.N DEMOCRACY
An exquisite trait in the Italians, the only race I am uncritically in love with, is this easy reponse to a human touch, a certain closeness to nature which welds all ranks together at the base. Their heads may be in different social strata; but the feet of all are on that rock. . . . That very spring I am writing about [lBB4] ... I was privileged to see a certain fat Marchesa, bearer, of an historic name, rating her gardener so furiously that apoplexy seemed imminent, when the old man gently put his hand on her arm and said: “But, figlia mia, peas won’t grow in the open in February.” —ETHEL SMYTH: “Impressions That Remained”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25086, 18 January 1947, Page 3
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116MINUTE Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25086, 18 January 1947, Page 3
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